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"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel,
and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/ The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress has announced the availability of two new American Memory collections of recorded music. The first, Now What a Time, provides access to over 100 sound recordings and related documentation from what may have been the "first folk festival organized entirely by and for African Americans." The recordings feature guitar, banjo, harmonica, and choral arrangements. In addition to songs recorded at the Fort Valley Music Festival in Georgia, there are music recordings from Tennessee and Alabama made between 1938 and 1941. The second collection, Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier, features more than 180 original sound recordings of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Virginia. The recordings are accompanied by field notes taken in 1966-67 by folklorist Alan Jabbour, a glossary of musical terms, 69 musical transcriptions, as well as photographs, and a biographical sketch of Reed's life. [AG] >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ Paul T. Jackson - Trescott
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